When the World Was Steady, Claire Messud Messud’s debut novel from the mid-90s follows the separate adventures of two sisters,…
These were my last two reads of 2020, after I had finished reading the Women’s Prize for Fiction list, and…
I first heard of Aphra Behn on The Guilty Feminist podcast (if you haven’t listened yet, you should definitely check…
After five months of reading through years of winners, I have arrived at the end! Well, the present day at…
Kamila Shamsie’s seventh novel, Home Fire, is divided into five sections, each narrated by a different character. It follows the…
If you are going to read one of the books that I have been blathering on about these last 5…
The Glorious Heresies is an ambitious spider web of characters with overlapping stories and plotlines; the entertaining part is trying…
How to Be Both is divided into two parts and tells the story of two women in two completely different…
Eimear McBride’s debut novel is devastatingly haunting and heartbreaking: a young Irish girl-turned-woman narrates her thoughts and the painful (because…
The first 50 pages of this book are explosive in events: basically, as the main character starts sleeping with his…